Story Musgrave
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is currently a public speaker and consultant to both Disney\'s Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. Musgrave entered the United States Marine Corps in 1953, served as an aviation electrician and instrument technician, and as an aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments in Korea, Japan and Hawaii, and aboard the carrier USS Wasp in the Far East. He served a surgical internship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington from 1964 to 1965, and continued there as a U. S. Air Force post-doctoral fellow (1965â1966), working in aerospace medicine and physiology, and as a National Heart Institute post-doctoral fellow (1966â1967), He has written or been listed as a co-author of twenty five scientific papers in the areas of aerospace medicine and physiology, temperature regulation, exercise physiology, and clinical surgery. Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles. Prior to John Glenn\'s return to space in 1998, Musgrave held the record for the oldest person in orbit, at age 62. He retired from NASA in 1997.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-6 MSP 04.04. - 09.04.1983 5d 00h 23m
2 STS-51F MSP 29.07. - 06.08.1985 7d 22h 45m
3 STS-33 MSP 23.11. - 28.11.1989 5d 00h 06m
4 STS-44 MSP 24.11. - 01.12.1991 6d 22h 50m
5 STS-61 MSP 02.12. - 13.12.1993 10d 19h 58m
6 STS-80 MSP 19.11. - 07.12.1996 17d 15h 53m
Total 53d 09h 55m
